Months after a dramatic video captured the moment when an Australian BASE jumper crashed into the side of a Moab cliff, his rescuer was awarded for saving his life.
The incident happened at the end of November and video captured by a witness showed the BASE jumper, identified only as a 39-year-old Australian man, gliding backward momentarily before slamming into a cliff and dangling 80 feet in the air.
Wiggins remembers the rescue because he was there, watching from a distance as Berry scaled 100 feet up the side of the cliff to get to the injured man. "The Grand County Sheriff's Search and Rescue had plans to rappel roughly 300 feet down to perform a rescue," Wiggins explained"This operation would have taken more time - time that the BASE jumper may or may not have had due to the circumstances of dangling on the cliff face."
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